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Happy Shashti to all of you! I continue my posts on Dikshithar’s Navavarana kritis (Nine Enclosures) and we have come to the sixth one today. As we unfold one Avaranam (Enclosure) after another, it is clear that each one is one further step in reaching the state of oneness with the Supreme Consciousness which resides in the centre. A true worship is not just revering this chakra, but in exploring the meaning of each consecutive state and training our minds to reach that state. It is all so complicated! So what of us ‘normal’ people with limited abilities? Are we to just blindly worship the symbol without any follow through? Are we to resign ourselves to the fact the we are just not capable?

Here, Dikshithar comes to help with the very first line of today’s kriti. He addresses Kamalambika as sangIta rasika, She who loves music and says that he, Dikshithar, is Her devotee. It is only that one sentence that I cling today, telling myself that surely She who loves music will be present every time I play this beautiful song…

The sixth Avarana is called the सर्व रक्षाकर चक्र Sarva Rakshakara Chakra (All Protecting Chakra). Let us forget meaning, let us forget prescribed forms of worship, let us forget everything except that She who loves music IS music itself, that our love for music is in fact a worship it itself. This kriti is set to Raga Punnagavarali and is presented to us today by K.Gayatri.

Note : As I did not have time to do the translation, this is as available on Guruguha.org I will do a word by word translation as soon as I am able.

I am a devotee of you, kamalambika. The auspicious, the harbinger of prosperity, the connoisseur of music.

The one who holds bow of sugarcane, arrow of flowers, the noose and goad, the one with the sweetest voice, the consort of sharva; the auspicious, the one whose tresses are blacker than the bees in the punnaga trees.

The controller of the Sarvarakshakara chakra with ten petals ; The controller of the Malini chakra which has the ten shaktis beginning with Sarvagna the shakti represented by the ka series & ca series and praised by the devas;the one who is kundalini which is embodied in the 50 letters; The kaulini devi worshipped with the 10 mudras, the perceptor of shiva – the father of guruguha; The one adored by dasharatha; the one who has taken the form of yogini power who holds in herself hearing and all activities of the 10 indriyas

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